HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- There was a common refrain at last week's Consumer Electronic Show: The future had arrived.
You know, the time of tomorrow, as described in Back to the Future II, the 1989 time-traveling sequel to the 1985 original, which just happened to take place in 2015. Or better yet, the 2052 future of the space-age cartoon many of us watched as kids, The Jetsons.
At CES, we had cars that could drive and park themselves, retail robots that greeted and served you, sensors for every part of your body to interact with your smartphone and mini drones that could go one better than a selfie by following you and snapping your image from a few feet above. There were even virtual reality headsets capable of knocking out your senses with a body blow.
Our future is here, and it's cooler than Hollywood writers imagined.
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